double to hex string & hex string to double

Question

What I\'m trying to do is to convert a double to hex string and then back to double.

The following code does conversion double-to-hex string.

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Answer 1

char *doubleToRawString(double x) {
    // Assumes sizeof(long long) == 8.

    char *buffer = new char[32];
    sprintf(buffer, "%llx", *(unsigned long long *)&x);  // Evil!
    return buffer;
}

double rawStringToDouble(const char *s) {
    // Assumes sizeof(long long) == 8.

    double ret;
    sscanf(s, "%llx", (unsigned long long *)&ret);  // Evil!
    return ret;
}